(Obit - DR. D.C. PARDUE was born in Perry County, Mississippi, in 1835, educated in Green 
County Salem High School; then engaged in the mercantile business in Mobile, Alabama, 
until the beginning of the civil war. He then enlisted and became Captain of Co. C 7th 
Mississippi Battalion. Soon after the close of the war he came to Collins County, Texas, 
and taught school two years; then attended medical lectures and graduated at Tulane 
Medical College in New Orleans; returned to Texas and took up his profession, which he has 
since followed. He later engaged in the drug business at Nevada, Texas. In 1894, he was 
married to Miss Bell D. Binford of the same place, to which union was born two children. 
Wife and childrensurvive. He died December 25, 1911, with burial in the Cumby cemetery.)